Characteristics of an organism.

The "Father" of Genetics.

Units of heredity, the instructions for inherited traits.

Offspring with two different alleles for a trait.

Offspring with two of the same alleles for a trait.

The trait that shows up the strongest is ____.

The word that means a characteristic of an organism.

Mendel's experiments involved _____.

The dominant form of a gene is written as a _____.

Organisms that have alleles that are alike are called _____.

Mendel found that green peas were dominant over yellow peas.

P generation stands for first filial generation.

In most cases, recessive traits are more common than dominant traits.

Sperm and eggs are known as _____.

The _____ is the expression of a trait and is determined by the combination of alleles called the genotype.

_____ produces cells with half the normal number of chromosomes.

Different versions of the same genes are called _____.

The passing of traits from parent to offsping is called _____.

If you cross a white flower with the genotype pp with a purple flower with the genotype PP, the possible genotypes in the offspring are _____.